Anne Lamott Quotes

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it.

I don't question God.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I think often that God is guiding me.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.